In 2022 we published 9 papers on habitat loss and fragmentation, landscape connectivity, landscape heterogeneity, and road ecology.
Under the general heading of habitat loss and fragmentation: (1) we showed that a given amount of habitat is more likely to be lost from small patches than from large patches (Riva et al. 2022), despite the fact that small patches have disproportionately high conservation value on a per-area basis (Riva and Fahrig 2022); (2) we found support for the Habitat Amount Hypothesis for tropical plants, as well as evidence that habitat fragmentation shifts plant species composition (Herrero-Jáuregui et al. 2022); (3) we showed negative effects of habitat loss on seed dispersal at both patch and landscape scales (Cazetta and Fahrig 2022); and (4) we developed a new research agenda for the long-standing SLOSS (“single large or several small”) debate (Fahrig et al. 2022).
On landscape connectivity we found that a simple approach of maximizing habitat area for a given budget produces a prioritization for habitat protection that is similar to more complex algorithms e.g. based on focal species landscape resistance (Hanson et al. 2022). On landscape heterogeneity, we developed an approach to maximize biodiversity in managed forests by maximizing the spatial and temporal variability in management decisions (Duflot et al. 2022). And, on road ecology we showed that reduced predation on turtle nests along roads can compensate for the adult mortality from roadkill (Murphy et al. 2022).
The references are below, and you can find pdf copies of these papers here: https://carleton.ca/glel/publications/#p2022
- Cazetta E, Fahrig L. 2022. The effects of human-altered habitat spatial pattern on frugivory and seed dispersal: a global meta-analysis. Oikos: e08288.
- Cooke SJ, Michaels S, Nyboer EA, Schiller L, Littlechild DBR, Hanna D, Robichaud CD, Murdoch A, Roche D, Soroye P, Vermaire JC, Nguyen VM, Young N, Provencher JF, Smith PA, Mitchell GW, Avery-Gomm S, Davy CM, Buxton RT, Rytwinski T, Fahrig L, Bennett JR, Auld G. 2022. Reconceptualizing Conservation. PLoS Sustainability and Transformation 1: e0000016.
- Duflot R, Fahrig L, Mönkkönen M. 2022. Management diversity begets biodiversity in production forest landscapes. Biological Conservation 268: 109514.
- Fahrig L, Watling JI, Arnillas CA, Arroyo-Rodríguez V, Jörger-Hickfang T, Müller J, Pereira H, Riva F, Rösch V, Seibold S, Tscharntke T, May F. 2022. Resolving the SLOSS dilemma for biodiversity conservation: a research agenda. Biological Reviews 97: 99–114.
- Hanson J, Vincent J, Schuster R, Fahrig L, Brennan A, Martin A, Hughes J, Pither R, Bennett J. 2022. A comparison of approaches for including connectivity in systematic conservation planning. Journal of Applied Ecology 59: 2507-2519.
- Herrero-Jáuregui C, Camba GH, Andries DM, Aguiar S, Mastrangelo M, Fahrig L. 2022. Past and present effects of habitat amount and fragmentation per se on plant species richness, composition and traits. Biological Conservation 276: 109815.
- Murphy RE, Martin AE, Fahrig L. 2022. Reduced predation on roadside nests can compensate for road mortality in road-adjacent turtle populations. Ecosphere 13: e3946.
- Riva F, Martin CJ, Millard K, Fahrig L. 2022. Loss of the world’s smallest forests. Global Change Biology 28: 7164-7166.
- Riva F, Fahrig L. 2022. The disproportionately high value of small patches for biodiversity conservation. Conservation Letters 15: e12881.